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TIL that a cougar, puma, mountain lion, and panther, are all the same animals.

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LQpdd TIL that until the 1967 Supreme Court case In re Gault, juveniles accused of crimes in the US did not have the same due process rights as adults. The case involved a 16 year-old sentenced to 6 years in juvenile detention for a prank call, a crime for which adults had a maximum sentence of 2 months.
KO8XB TIL - To reduce chance of Prostate Cancer, Mens Should Ejaculate 21 times in a month
K1M6 TIL that Singapore Airlines flight 21 which had the longest non-stop flight (18 hours), from Singapore to New Jersey, had special lockers on the plane to store corpses if people died en route since the flight path over the Pacific Ocean and North Pole meant the plane couldn’t land if someone died.
d8p4B TIL Burger King Japan collaborated with Microsoft to release the Windows 7 Whopper in 2009. It has 7 beef patties and costs 777¥ to the first 30 customers each day.
xpw0 TIL, the newly elected Pope Francis’ response to the cardinals who elected him was “may God forgive you for what you have done”.